Photovoltaic (PV) and Thermo-electric energy harvesters for charging applications

Chitta Saha, M. Nazmul Huda, Asim Mumtaz, Anjan Debnath, Sanju Thomas, Robert Jinks

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    Abstract

    Significant technical progress is currently ongoing in the field of energy harvesting technologies. This paper presents a study of both photovoltaic (PV) and thermo-electric energy harvesting techniques in the context of mobile phone applications. The paper includes performance analysis of a macro scale PV module and a thermo-electric generator (investigated under different conditions), together with a single diode electrical equivalent circuit model of the solar PV developed using MATLAB/Simulink. Additionally experimental results of the PV module are verified via simulation. To complete the study a PV module is integrated with a DC/DC adjustable converter and solar charge controller (3A CMTP02) to charge a smart mobile phone in order to assimilate charging capacity and feasibility of macro scale energy harvesting devices.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number104685
    JournalMicroelectronics Journal
    Volume96
    Early online date23 Dec 2019
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2020

    Bibliographical note

    NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Microelectronics Journal. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms
    may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in
    Microelectronics Journal, 96, (2020) DOI:10.1016/j.mejo.2019.104685

    © 2019, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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    Keywords

    • Energy harvesters
    • Solar PV
    • Thermoelectric
    • Mobile charging

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